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My kid went to Westbrook, and will go to BCC.  Every single kid who is in Westbrook's zone is "closer" by a couple tenths of a mile to Whitman than BCC, and they'll all go to BCC.

This is a completely meaningless statistic, subject to misrepresentation by (i) people wishing to deceive and (ii) idiots.  [/quote]

How is it completely meaningless? If it helps them find ways to send more people to their closest schools, then why not include it? Obviously a couple tenths of a mile in this case isn't especially significant, but there are other examples with greater variances.[/quote]

It's meaningless because a significant amount of variation is built into the cluster system.  We have decided, with limited exceptions, that it is good for kids who go to elementary school together to all go to middle school together, and then go to high school together.  Therefore, a premium is *not* put on sending every kid to their closest school, it's with keeping groups together.

Add to this the fact that schools are built where the land is available, not in the geographic center of their sending areas, and the issue becomes obvious.  (Or it should, at least.)  Elementary-aged kids who live close to a boundary are likely to be closer to a school different than the one they attend.  The number of them multiply for middle school, and even more so for high school.  There's nothign nefarious about it, it's a function of geography and school placement.

But people who wish to inflame others use this stat as fodder for the "kids aren't going to their neighborhood schools!" nonsense, or to otherwise deceive the gullible among us (of which there are more than I'd expect.)   [/quote]

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